Rhonda Bracey: At Random

In 1986 I had the pleasure of living and working in Canada for some 13 months. One of the delights of that year was discovering muffins! Especially blueberry muffins…

Somewhere along the way I picked up a little spiral bound muffin cookbook, which I have used ever since. It has THE most delicious muffin recipes in it, and our favourite is “Marilyn’s Blueberry” muffins – which I made this afternoon. I reckon I’ve made thousands of blueberry muffins using this recipe – it’s so quick and easy, and they taste delicious.

Here’s the recipe (just multiply the quantities for more muffins!); you’ll need three mixing bowls for this recipe:

• PDF version (US measures) for printing out
• PDF version (metric measures) for printing out

TEMP: 400F (I use 180-200C)
TIME: 20 mins
MAKES: 12 large muffins

• 2 eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 1/4 cup melted butter or margarine
• 1.5 cups all-purpose flour (Australia: plain flour)
• 3 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries (or 1 can if you don’t have fresh)
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup white sugar

Note:

• 1/4 cup = 60 ml / 2 oz
• 1/2 cup = 120 ml / 4 oz
• 1 cup = approx 250 ml / 8 oz
• 1.5 cups = 350 ml / 12 oz

METHOD:

1. In a small bowl, beat eggs, milk and butter.
2. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and the 2 tablespoons of sugar.
3. Stir the liquid ingredients in the small bowl into the dry ingredients in the large bowl.
4. In the third bowl, mix together the blueberries with the remaining sugar and flour.
5. Gently fold the blueberry mixture in to the ‘cake’ mixture in the large bowl.
6. Fill muffin cups and bake at 400F (200C) for approximately 20 minutes.

BTW, I found that you can still get the book online from at least one secondhand bookseller. The authors are Bidinosti and Wearring and the book is “Muffins: a cookbook”; my copy was published in 1982 by Muffins Publishing, Inc. and is the 9th printing (1984).

Update (8 August 2007): Picture of very ‘bursty’ blueberry muffins sitting in the late afternoon sunlight made yesterday. These were made with frozen blueberries and had been out of the oven about 5 minutes when I took the photo.

Update (16 July 2009): Added metric and imperial measures for cups

Update (26 May 2010): Added PDF versions of this recipe for you to print out:

• PDF version (US measures) for printing out
• PDF version (metric measures) for printing out